black-and-white

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Partially black and partially white: a black-and-white cow.

adj. Being in writing or print: black-and-white proof.

adj. Rendered in black and white or in achromatic colors: a black-and-white drawing.

adj. Of or relating to the reproduction or presentation of visual images in black and white: black-and-white television; black-and-white photography.

adj. Expressing, recognizing, or based on two mutually exclusive sets of ideas or values: black-and-white categories; a black-and-white point of view.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.

adj. Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.

adj. depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrometechnicolorthree-color.

adj. of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories

adj. not having or not capable of producing colors

adj. lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black

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Examples

All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

For them, heaven, hell, and judgment day are realities, not metaphors, and moral issues are framed in absolute, black-and-white terms.42 In our 2006 Faith Matters survey, three quarters of evangelicals said that “there are absolutely clear guidelines as to what is good and evil,” while a majority of nonevangelicals said instead “there can never be absolutely clear guidelines as to what is good and evil.”

For instance, a few summers ago the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, a medieval building brilliantly re-conceived as a museum by architect Carlo Scarpa, mounted a show of Michael Mazur's great black-and-white monotype illustrations for my translation of Dante's Inferno.